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Homosocial Spaces in Monastic Places
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-15, 2027)Kalamazoo, MI, USAHybrid Session Medieval monks cultivated gender-segregated networks which supported their own learning, dialogues, and customs, which meant people assigned female at birth were essentially locked out of much of intellectual life.
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13 - 15, 2027)
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Hybrid Session (Virtual and In-person session)
Religion, Morality, and the American Presidency: The West Wing at 30
Edited by Ilaria W. Biano
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Premiering in 1999, The West Wing quickly became one of the most influential television portrayals of American political life. Through its depiction of the Bartlet administration, the series offered a powerful narrative of the presidency as a site of moral deliberation, civic responsibility, and public leadership. The show remains a significant reference point in discussions of political authority, democratic institutions, and the ethical responsibilities of governance.
CfP: Death and Desire in Devotional Literature
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2027, Kalamazoo MI May 13-15, 2027
About the Conference
In light of our deeply polarized times, the American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR/WR) invites scholars, practitioners, educators, and community leaders to submit proposals for its Annual Conference. This year's theme is Moving Beyond Boundaries and Silos Toward Interconnection. It reflects AAR/WR's foundational commitment to inter-religious, inter-disciplinary, and inter-generational dialogue.
The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University and the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida announce a call for papers for an upcoming international conference: After the Holocaust: Jewish Communities, Identities, and Intimacies in a Global Perspective
We welcome proposals from scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, religious studies, memory studies, and related fields. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Family formation, marriage, and kinship after the Holocaust
Emotional lives of survivors: grief, hope, resilience, and belonging
2027 Imagining Social WorldsOnline Symposium, 17–18 March 2027
We invite proposals for 2027 Imagining Social Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 17–18 March 2027.
The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, educators, policy thinkers, practitioners, community leaders, organizers, and public-facing professionals working across social, political, civic, organizational, and global fields. We welcome proposals that explore how social worlds are formed, governed, connected, contested, sustained, and transformed.
This virtual seminar takes its inspiration from Saidiya Hartman’s citation of the Greek etymology of the word chorus: “to dance within an enclosure.” For Hartman, the chorus also furnishes a paradigm for thinking—to play on Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion—Black (non)being singular plural. In Wayward Lives, Hartman suggests that any of the minor figures can stand in for the others, not as a claim of homogeneity, but rather as a contention that their singularity can be read as paradigmatic of waywardness—in its queer heterogeneity—in general. The chorus of black femme and queer youth is thus at once a singular plurality and a plural singularity as they make beautifully riotous lives within the enclosure of social death.
Call for Papers
Imagining the Global Past:
Antiquities, Early Modernities, and the Humanities Today
Research Symposium, May 17–18, 2027
University of Washington Division of the Humanities
Keynote Speakers: Russ Leo (Princeton, English Literature) and Andrew Hui (National University of Singapore, Comparative Literature and Sinology)
Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington, English Literature and Religious Studies)
Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for RealityDetails
Keynote Address: Militarizing the Mind: Cognitive Warfare from the Cold War to the Dark WebJason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Fecha: Octubre 30–31, 2026
Lugar: Virtual (Zoom)
Hora: 09:00 – 17:30 EST
Idiomas: Español e Inglés
Institución
Anfitrión: Universidad Teológica del Caribe
Registrate: Enventbrite
Dirigido:
Theme: Pentecostal Theology: A Discipline of the Future? Perspectives, Tensions, and Horizons
Date: October 30–31, 2026
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Time: 09:00–17:30 EST
Languages: Spanish and English
Host Institution:
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions invites submissions for a special guest-edited issue on the subject of disclosure. Since the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon in 1947, popular discourse on the subject has always included an intense speculative interest in the secret knowledge of the state, including and perhaps especially the military and intelligence agencies, who are widely suspected of harboring hidden knowledge about UFOs, their occupants, and nothing less than humanity’s ultimate place in the cosmos.
Following the death of Marjane Satrapi, this session examines her legacy through the lens of graphic resistance, considering questions of form, memory, politics, religion, gender, and emancipation in her comics and their afterlives.
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36481.htm
"Eastern Thought in the Americas"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (1/2028)
This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.
Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
Date: November 14-15, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/alchemy-2026/
Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude Eventbrite fees
Occulture as Method Symposium
September 10-11, 2026
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UK
Organised by the Dark Arts Research Kollective
Submission deadline: 10th July 2026
Call for Contributors:Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial IntelligenceEditors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Kaylee Alexander (kaylee.alexander@utah.edu); Justina Sumilova (justina.sumilova@protonmail.com)
Abstract:
Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence
Editors:
Robert Spinelli (rspinelli@ncis.org); Kaylee Alexander (kaylee.alexander@utah.edu); Justina Sumilova (justina.sumilova@protonmail.com)
Abstract:
‘The pluralism of a postcolonial or decolonial philosophy of religion should be “on both ends” of the discipline; that is, both the phenomena and subjects considered and contemplated by the discipline should be diverse, but also the people, perspectives, and methods engaged in this project should come from diverse backgrounds—not only in terms of race, class, gender, geography, etc. but also in terms of ritual practice, training (both academic and otherwise), initiation or membership in tribes, societies, or “religious” traditions.’
—Oludamini Ogunnaike, “Expanding the Menu or Seats at the Table? Grotesque Pluralism in the (Post)Colonial Philosophy of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 2 (2021): 734.
CFP: MW/SWCCL, “Taking Care”
Midwest/Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri
September 25-26, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Bilbro, professor of English at Grove City College and editor-in-chief at Front Porch Republic
Christian Writers Conference 2027
“Restoring Creativity”
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA
The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot
Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist
Call for Papers
PAMLA 2026 is pleased to present Together and Apart: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19955)!
The World Congress on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR) series aims to provide a forum where scholars from a wide range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, the humanities, psychology, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences — together with theologians from diverse religious traditions, can come together to exchange ideas on the latest developments concerning the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, and rational inquiry and divine revelation.
Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027
CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
– Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27th January 1904
We are delighted to announce that Errant is now open for submissions to its fifth issue.
Handbook of Religions and Migration: Global and Multi-Tradition Perspectives (Springer)
Editors:
İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara University
Fadime Apaydın, University of California, Riverside
Nevfel Akyar, Manisa Celal Bayar University
Editorial Note: In line with our editorial commitment to developing a major reference handbook comparable to leading works in the field, the submission deadline has been extended briefly in order to further strengthen the volume’s global, multi-religious, and cross-traditional comparative dimensions.
CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS
“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth) invites submissions for the special issue “Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism,” edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.
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Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA).
Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”
2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.